Local music makes some NOISE!

Local music website, KalamazooNOISE.com will be hosting a giant, enormous, one might even say epic showcase of local talent.

On April 29, at The Strutt, more than 15 area performers and bands will hit the stage to show of their rock star skills. The best thing: It will only cost you a 5 buck cover.

"It's pretty cool we can bring all these great bands together on one night in our name," said Munson Haver, NOISE! Editor, "but more importantly it will be a great event for the local music scene to sink its teeth into."

Performers include:

The Hex Bombs,

Ghosts of the Great Lakes,

Hello Victor,

Ender,

Please Promise,

Branden Mann and the Reprimand,

Dead Scene Radio,

Elm Street Riot, Brena,

Trixy Disco,

The Sedgwyck Agent,

Crash City Saints,

Dunktank,

Kathryn Tapper,

Sara Never Loved Me, and

Glennerd (featuring Glenn Willis of Their Teeth Will Be Of Lions)

The show is 18+ and begins at 8 p.m.

Dead Scene Radio hits and runs

Kalamazoo outfit Dead Scene Radio gives listeners an EP full of music that could only come from Michigan, but plays well anywhere. Its sound is so tight and solid it breaks the molds of musical convention like a punch to the nose.

DSR's EP has a stronger voice and cleaner production than full-length efforts from better known bands, and the result is as ironic as the band's darker lyrics played against its high energy guitars. The vocals are hinged on a reliable musicality that is not afraid of melodies and rhythms that don't just drive - they hit and run.